... Planetary Nebula Abell 36 . ... The gorgeous, gaseous shroud of a dying sunlike star, planetary nebula Abell 36 lies a mere 800 light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. ... Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri . ... Globular star cluster Omega Centauri, also known as NGC 5139, is some 15,000 light-years away. ... Stars are forming in the gigantic dust pillar called the Cone Nebula. ... The Cone Nebula, a well-known example, lies within the bright galactic star-forming region NGC 2264. ...

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... Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. July 26, 1995 . M15: A Great Globular Cluster . Credit: The Electronic Universe Project . ... One of the brightest globular clusters in our Milky Way galaxy is the pictured M15, the fifteenth object on Messier's list of diffuse objects on our sky. ... For more information on M15 see The Electronic Universe Project's write-up. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... March 23 - Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal the explosive birth of stars in a distant galaxy. ... THE GALAXY NGC 1808 is in the direction of the southern constellation Columba, about 40 million light-years away from Earth. ... Mutchler said those supernovae eject dust that shows up as streaming filaments in high-resolution images of NGC 1808. ... Mutchler said the shape of the galaxy may have been altered by the gravitational pull of another galaxy passing nearby; perhaps NGC 1792. ...

... BLUE STRAGGLER STARS are unusually hot and bright stars found in the cores of ancient star clusters known as globulars. ... BACKGROUND (from wikipedia): Blue straggler stars are stars in open or globular clusters that are hotter and bluer than other cluster stars having the same luminosity. ... There is evidence in favor of this view, notably that blue straggler stars appear to be much more common in dense regions of clusters, especially in the cores of globular clusters. ...

Проект существует с июля 2002 года. Цель проекта - дать краткий обзор наиболее интересных статей, появившихся в библиотеке электронных препринтов astro-ph . Также в обзоры будут включаться статьи, появившиеся в списке astro-ph из других разделов. ... Параллельно в 2002-2003 гг. создавался списки обзорных статей, в которых подробно освещаются те или иные часто обсуждаемые вопросы (например, статья А. Линде hep-th/0107176 является одной из лучших обзорных статей по инфляции). ...

... The study of the Large-scale structure of the Universe and measurements of the Dark Energy equation of state; The exploration of the growth and cosmological evolution of supermassive Black holes in the Universe. ... In course of the all sky survey SRG will discover about 100 000 galaxy clusters and 3 million AGNs. Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bounded objects in the Universe and are best explored through the study of X-ray emission from the hot intergalactic gas. ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

Aitoff Projection showing ChaMP Fields . ... Main survey: >20 from galactic plane. ... Galactic Plane Survey: No subarray fields: reduced area and more complicated processing . ... Short exposures included except NGC galaxies . Galactic Plane Survey: > 30 ksecs . ... Galactic Plane Survey: >10% contamination by a diffuse/distributed X-ray or optical source. ... E(B-V)= (B-V) - (B-V) 0 which translates to visual extinction A V via . ... Crudely, E(B-V) can be related to Galactic latitude via . ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes projects/positions database . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Australian SKA Pathfinder webcam . ... An open workshop for Australian industry and other interested parties providing a brief on the systems requirements for the extended New Technology Demonstrator (xNTD) radio telescope, potential solutions for the SKA, and a discussion on the potential for industry collaboration and capability mapping. ...

... April 2, 1999 . Stars of NGC 206 . ... Explanation: Nestled within the dusty arms of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda (M31), the star cluster NGC 206 is one of the largest star forming regions known in our local group of galaxies. The beautiful bright blue stars of NGC 206 betray its youth - but close, systematic studies of variable stars in and around NGC 206 will also accurately reveal its distance. ... About APOD > . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The projected distance of VFTS 682 to the cluster R136 is 29 pc (for an assumed LMC distance of 50 kpc). ... VFTS 682 is located in an active star-forming region, at a projected distance of 29 pc from the young massive cluster R136 in the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud. ... Our aim is to obtain the stellar properties, such as its intrinsic luminosity, and to investigate the origin of VFTS 682. ...

... ИСТОРИЯ ГАИШ - хроника, музей, персоналии, мемуары, периодика . Сайт "HERITAGE - астрономия, астрономическое образование с сохранением традиций" ориентирован на студентов 1 и 2-го курсов астрономического отделения физического факультета МГУ и отражает ранением традиций" ориентирован на студентов 1 и 2-го курсов астрономического отделения физического факультета МГУ и отражает работу, проводимую сотрудниками ГАИШ МГУ и физического факультета МГУ по расширению астрономического образования студентов. ...

... LMC Project Outline . NGC 1818 Initial Results . ... The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is uniquely suitable for the study of massive star clusters at all stages of evolution. By combining HST observations of these clusters with N-body models we hope to understand the origin and evolution of rich star clusters in our own Galaxy, in the LMC, and beyond. ... We aim to combine our HST observations with N-body models to understand the formation and evolution of globular clusters. ...

You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

In autumn 1994, two groups of astronomers announced that they had discovered Cepheid variable stars in a distant cluster of galaxies. ... As the term suggests, variable stars change in brightness over time. ... Variable stars are an ideal way to get high-school students doing real science, with real data, from the real sky. ... a sky chart to find the stars . ... Students can use the nearby stars to estimate the magnitude of Delta. ... Locate the star Delta in Cepheus and estimate its brightness . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... By R.A. By NGC/IC . ... By R.A. Andromeda . ... Canis Major . ... Canis Minor . ... Leo . ... Leo Minor . ... Ursa Major . ... Ursa Minor . ... By Catalog Type . ... By R.A. Messier . ... Herschel 2500 . ... Herschel 400 (I) . ... Globular Clusters . ... AL Globular Club . ... AL Planetary Club . ...

Cambridge . ... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . Next: My talk at the CRISP meeting --.. ... This week I am at the first annual meeting of the CRISP project. The acronym CRISP stands for Cluster of Research Infrastructures for Synergies in Physics ( http://www.crisp-fp7.eu/ ) and is a relatively new EU-funded project. ... Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. blog comments powered by Disqus . Copyright 2012, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...